North Seattle Community College



North Seattle Community College will increase student achievement in college level math courses by improving student success in and progress through their pre-college math sequence with the following strategies:

1. the design and pilot of a year-long cohort model precollege math sequence, entitled ALIGN* for Success, incorporating attributes/study skills focus and culminating in an intermediate algebra course linked to an environment science course. [*ALIGN - Algebra Learning Inquiry Group at North] COHORT PAGE
2. the reformation of the NSCC precollege math program to focus on the delivery of a contextually-based curriculum. To accomplish this we will develop a learning resource bank of contextually-based interdisciplinary learning activities. RESOURCE BANK PAGE
3. Incorporation of common core assessments and more formative assessments across precollege math classes. ASSESSMENT PAGE

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Faculty Assigned to RPM Projects:

• Overall Project - Edgar Jasso (ejasso@northseattle.edu), Deanna Li (dli@sccd.ctc.edu)
• Faculty Inquiry Group (Reflection Friday) - Michael Gaul (mgaul@northseattle.edu)
  • The Math faculty has formed a FIG around student learning, reflection Fridays, where we share classroom experiences, successful teaching techniques, etc.
• Classroom Assessment Techniques - Ben Aschenbrenner (baschenbrenner@sccd.ctc.edu)
  • To support the use of Classroom Assessment Techniques, both formal and informal, in the classroom by our math faculty.
• Classroom Exchanges - Barbara Goldner (bgoldner@northseattle.edu)
  • Fomenting the use of classroom exchanges as a valuable resource for our faculty.
• Data Analysis - Betsy Campbell (bcampbell@sccd.ctc.edu)
  • Gathering data from our common entry Student Survey
  • Trying to correlate student's retention on math skills during the inter-quarter breaks
  • Math Pre-Test Database-Winter2011.accdb
  • Math Pre-Test Summary Data - Winter 2011.docx
  • RPM DATA ANALYSIS.doc

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NSCC Project Essentials.pdf Details Download 209 KB

RPM project timeline.pdf Details Download 76 KB

NSCC RPM Website

Denise Brannan	Math Full time Faculty	dbrannan@northseattle.edu
Deanna Li	Math Full time Faculty	dli@sccd.ctc.edu
Michael Gaul	Math Full time Faculty	mgaul@northseattle.edu
Edgar Jasso	Math Full time Faculty	ejasso@northseattle.edu
Ralph Jenne	Math Full time Faculty	rjenne@sccd.ctc.edu
Pam Lippert	Math Full time Faculty	plippert@sccd.ctc.edu
Harry Watts	Math Full time Faculty	hwatts@sccd.ctc.edu
Ben Aschenbrenner	Math Adjunct	baschenbrenner@sccd.ctc.edu
Jennifer DeSoto	Math Adjunct	jdesoto@sccd.ctc.edu
Eileen Murphy	Math Adjunct	emurphy@sccd.ctc.edu
Barbara Goldner	FT Math/Computer Science	bgoldner@northseattle.edu
Betsy Campbell	FT IT/Math	bcampbell@sccd.ctc.edu
Peter Lortz	Dean Math, Science & SS	plortz@sccd.ctc.edu
Gary Gorland	Director, Inst. Initiatives	ggorland@sccd.ctc.edu

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